Blair House, 8 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 1 related planning application.

Blair House, 8 High Street, Kirkcudbright

WRENN ID
leaning-gutter-solstice
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Address
Blair House, 8 High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JX
OS grid reference
NX 681 510
Coordinates
54.83705, -4.05431
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The summerhouse at Blair House, located at 8 High Street in Kirkcudbright, was built in 1817 for the writer Robert Gordon. This detached house features two storeys over a basement and has three bays. It is constructed of painted squared rubble with painted margins and rusticated quoins. A band course runs at the ground floor level. The central door is flanked by narrow lights with etched glass above a wide segmental fanlight, and is framed by an engaged Ionic columned doorpiece with a central keystone and cornice. Ground floor windows have a cill band and 12-pane glazing, while a cornice and blocking course adorn the top of the building.

The garden front showcases a prominent full-height semi-octagonal central bay that rises through the eaves to a castellated parapet, with a cill band for the first-floor windows. The roof is piended slate. The front courtyard is enclosed by attractive spear-pattern cast-iron railings, square cast-iron gatepiers with finials, and gates featuring decorative lower panels.

Inside, there is a pilastered hall screen with a depressed arch, an octagonal drawing room with naturalistic detail in the cornice, and a good cast-iron stair balustrade. The summerhouse itself is circular and built into the harbour retaining wall, constructed of rubble with Gothic windows and a castellated design.

Local climate

Blair House, 8 High Street, Kirkcudbright sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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